Welcome to Concrete Couch

Donate to Concrete Couch through IndyGIVE! this year!100% of your IndyGIVE! donation goes to us, and you can earn great rewards from community sponsors. Its also a great program in that it highlights "75 Local Non-Profits Worthy of Your Support".

This year Concrete Couch's indyGIVE contributions will go towards buying a facility for the Couch!

We've been out in the community for 14 years, helping communities strengthen and improve, and have been lucky to have had practically free space for all this time.After strategic planning we have identified that purchasing a facility will enable us to embed ourselves in a neighborhood, as well as producing real long term stability for the organization.

HELP us reach our goal of buying a house for the couch by donating online at

WHY?-We work with some of the most challenged communities in town-Its a cooperative process where everyone wins-Its fun!-We are building sustainability for communities and the environment-We are job training teens-We are ridiculously efficient and cost effective (our wage equality program ensures that "we are all in this together" and allows us to offer sliding scale fees)-Our programs save lives (testimonials available upon request!)

Hello.

We’re Concrete Couch and we help communities come together to do amazing things.

The people we bring together for our projects and programs create murals, bridges, towers, mosaics, park benches, friendships, wacky experiences, grow spinach (and other delectables), and yes, make the occasional concrete couch.

They also grow confidence, connection, hope, self-esteem, skills and optimism.

We love what we do. We think it’s important. And we hope you’ll come along and be a part of it.

Want to read about why we do what we do? Thought you’d never ask

Concrete Couch has been connecting communities since 1990. We were a loosely-affiliated but tightly-aligned group of teachers, artists, builders, optimists, pragmatists and super-heroes (plus the odd dramatist) (Literally). We gained our 501C3 status in 2004, and have been going strong ever since.

Our 7 core beliefs:

1) Community mattersIt’s what holds us together. But the places where community happens are disappearing. We want to create new ones. And strengthen the old places.

2) Making things is fun workCreativity is a fundamental human force that connects us to who we are. When we make things, we’re being our best selves.

3) Junk is just raw material waiting for an ideaYou’d be amazed what we can do with a pile of stuff that’s headed for the landfill.

4) Every community has strengths, assets and resourcesWe love discovering these resources, and creating a venue for the sharing of skills, knowledge, tools, and ideas. Projects move forward, and our communities grow stronger.

5) Sharing things with others makes people happierSharing food, music, tools, materials and knowledge makes us all feel better about ourselves and our world. We’re never happier than when were sharing our gifts

6) People who feel valued contribute moreWe love watching what happens when a person is given a welder, an engaging project, new amigos, and enthusiastic support. This is sheer magic and it’s what gets us out of bed in the morning.

7) Getting dirty is liberatingMost of our best times involved dirt, dust, paint, glue and some kind of unidentified gunk (respirators where appropriate). We make a mess to make things functional and beautiful.